The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D (대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D)

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A Study on the Optimum Release Time Determination of Developing Software Considering Imperfect Debugging

불완전 디버깅을 고려한 개발 소프트웨어의 최적 인도 시기 결정 방법에 관한 연구

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Abstract

The software reliability growth model(SRGM) has been developed in order to evaluate such measures as remaining fault number, fault rate, and reliability for the developing stage software. Most of the study literatures assumed that this detecting efficiency was perfect. However the actual fault detecting is generally imperfect, and widely known to many persons. It is not easy to develop and remove the fault existing in the software because the fault finding is difficult, and the exact solving method also not easy, and new fault may be introduced depending on the tester's capability. There, the fault removing efficiency influences the software reliability growth or developing cost of software. It is a very useful measure throughout the developing stage, much helpful for the developer to evaluate the debugging efficiency, and evaluate additional workload. Hence, the study for the imperfect debugging is important in point of software reliability and cost. This paper proposes that the fault debugging is imperfect and new fault may be introduced for the developing software during the developing stage.

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